Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Kant- Nature and Experience

"But experience teaches us what exists and how it exists, but never that it must necessarily exist so and not otherwise...Experience therefore can never teach us the nature of things in themselves."-35


Experience teaches about everything around us.  By seeing and observing things in life, we learn about them and why things are certain ways.  We see other people and we understand why they exist.  By Kant saying experience can never teach us the nature of things in themselves, I believe he is saying just by going about our day to day life seeing different things we won't just learn about everything beyond the picture that is in front of us.  I agree with this; we have to go beyond just the experience to know the truth in things.  

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